Upgrade for dying PC

Mechanic · 10 Feb 2013 at 17:10

I want to upgrade my pc as old age is starting to set in, the graphics card has packed in upgrade is in order. list below is my upgrade but I would like your expert eye over it my main use is photoshop cs6 films and web and no games.
I have monitor mouse keyboard blueray drive 500gb and 1.5tb hard drives tagan tg480u22 power supply and windows 7.

Gigabyte z77x d3h
Intel i7
Kingston hyper x black 16gb on 2 x 8 sticks

As for graphics card will I need one or will on board will do.
ssd drive or hybrid drive do for OS.

Thanks for looking.

dacads · 10 Feb 2013 at 20:33

Go with an SSD mate and onboard graphics should be fine

Mechanic · 10 Feb 2013 at 22:01

Is there any make or size I should look for.
Thanks for the advice.

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 22:02

look for a crucial or intel

lee32uk · 10 Feb 2013 at 23:24

Something like this ?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £259.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (KHX16C10B1BK2/16X) £71.99
Total : £533.32 (includes shipping : £9.50).

DaleTheWhale · 10 Feb 2013 at 23:51

EDITED [Eyes are tired aha]

Not sure about the PSU either, maybe switch that out too.

From a post earlier I read, apparently CS4+ makes use of AMD cards very well as they have openGL, and Photoshop uses that. (I believe)

lee32uk · 11 Feb 2013 at 00:26

The Tagan psu should be ok if he's only running onboard graphics.

Mechanic · 11 Feb 2013 at 19:38

Thanks for taking time to reply, CS 6 uses opengl 2.0 but what I have read AMD and NVIDA use opengl 4.0 so either card can be used? I could build the system without graphics card and later could fit a graphics card later if needed, as for power supply will the size be dependent on which card I get. Also will the stock CPU fan be ok as i will not overclock as I need the build to be reliable.

olivier renault · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:01

GTX 650. That should do for CS 6.

dacads · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:13

Or Radeon 7770

olivier renault · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:15

NVidia a safer bet for CUDA support. Depends on what software you running.

dacads · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:19

Photoshop doesn't use CUDA..

Mechanic · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:23

What about power supply will I need to upgrade.

dacads · 11 Feb 2013 at 20:47

Nope it will be fine